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...attitude toward World War One, presenting the dilemma of a magazine that simply couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a liberal government's House-organ or a conservative administration's shrill and ineffectual opponent. There's a fine chapter on Colonel House himself, the intellectual pimp of Wilsonian progressivism, and his relations with the journalist Lincoln Colcord. Lincoin Steffens is taken to pieces for walking into his "scientific" study of corruption with pretty clear notions of what he was going to find, then kindly put back together again for the, "humility" he apparently evinced...
Woodrow Wilson's World War I pledge to "make the world safe for democracy" is nowadays often considered naive. President Kennedy spoke instead of "making the world safe for diversity." Yet the Wilsonian hope-which does not intend to impose democracy on anyone but only to create conditions in which it can live-remains a noble aim and a valid, long-range objective for American policy. The U.S. no longer insists that "real" democracy must conform to a particular version of the parliamentary or presidential system. But any meaningful definition of democracy must meet certain minimum conditions. The ancient...
...many ways, the U.S. was lucky to have Hull as Secretary of State in the prewar years. Though a Wilsonian liberal, he had the respect of the nation's conservatives. He helped swing national opinion from isolationism to internationalism. But like his mentor Wilson, he was too didactic, too cocksure of his own principles. By believing that the United Nations would solve all the world's problems and make obsolete the cold realities of Communist hostility, he contributed to the bad peace that followed World...
After 30 years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display...
...instinct prompts them, or that they are inspired by high and noble ends. They fight merely because something angers them in each other's smells. What is true of dogs in the street equally true of nations in the present war." Although Russell persisted in voicing his un-Wilsonian sentiments until he ultimately incurred a six-month jail sentence he never based his pacifism on universal principles...